Colin Small, a Pennsylvania man originally reported to have been working as a contractor for the Republican Party of Virginia was arrested by the Rockingham County, Va., Sheriff’s Office on Thursday and charged with attempting to destroy voter registration forms by tossing them into a dumpster behind a shopping center in Harrisonburg, Va. Small, a former intern for Pennsylvania Congressman Mike Kelly R-PA, was working for the Republican National Committee and was also associated with the firm Strategic Allied Consulting.
Strategic Allied Consulting had been paid significantly by the Florida Republican Party, either $667K or $1.3M depending on the media outlet reporting, to manage its voter registration campaigns. Strategic was fired in late September after more than 100 apparently fraudulent voter registration forms were discovered to have been turned in by the group to the Palm Beach County, FL Supervisor of Elections. No data is available as to how many total voter registration forms had been turned in by the group to all counties across the state of Florida, or how many of those total registrations are fraudulent.
I know (racist) southern Democrats used to do it frequently before the 1970s but it appears to be institutionalized by Republicans these days.
- Tea Party members "monitoring" polling places in areas with anticipated high Democratic turnout. Allegedly to ensure that voter fraud doesn't occur. Not that instances of voter fraud have been reported or found. The United Nations has decided to monitor Republican efforts to suppress voting in some locations. - In Pennsylvania, a voter ID law was put on hold by a judge. However, there has been widespread misleading advertising in the state claiming that voters will need to show ID in order to vote. - Clear Channel Communications, which is owned by Bain Capital, has been placing anti-fraud billboards in poorer neighborhoods in Ohio and Wisconsin. The nation's largest online civil rights organization has charged Clear Channel with voter intimidation. - In 2002, Chuck McGee a Hampshire Republican Party employee saw a flier put out by the state Democratic Party with phone numbers for voters to call offering them rides to the polls on Election Day. McGee hired a company from out of state to jam the phone lines on Election Day.
http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/22/news/companies/voter-fraud-billboards/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
I know the motto of Chicago politics back in the day was "vote early, vote often" but I don't know of any instances of Democrats bringing voter fraud to a fine art.
The signs are being taken down in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, and Milwaukee. Perhaps this is one case in which Republican voter suppression is not working.